Interesting Ocean Facts

Here are some facts about the ocean that you might not have heard before:

• An estimated 80 percent of all life on Earth is found under the oceans’ surface, and the oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet. Less than 10 percent of that space has been explored by humans.
• At the deepest point in the ocean, the pressure is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of one person trying to support 50 jumbo jets.
• El Niño, a periodic shift of warm waters from the western to the eastern Pacific Ocean, has dramatic effects on climate worldwide. In 1982-83, the most severe El Niño of the century created droughts, crop failures, fires, torrential rains, floods and landslides.

More facts, along with those previously mentioned, can be found here.